Design System Architect

TALENT Software Services; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TALENT Software Services is seeking a Design System Architect to bridge UX/CX with business strategy and technology. You will craft a comprehensive ecosystem and strategy guiding customer interactions across all touchpoints, ensuring scalable design systems and AI-ready interfaces.

Lead governance, explore multi-modal interaction patterns, and align product teams toward a unified future-state experience. Remote, 6-month contract with emphasis on accessible, data-driven design.

Qualifications

• Mastery of information architecture for unstructured data and large-scale semantic vector spaces.
• Deep understanding of context windows, prompt formatting, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) impact on UI text.
• Working comprehension of LLMs, neural networks, computer vision, and API constraints.
• Ability to map unpredictable, non-linear user journeys where system output changes with prompts.
• Experience leading workshops on bias mitigation and inclusive AI design.
• Data structuring, content modeling, and complex navigational taxonomy expertise.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Channel Strategy: Map complete customer lifecycles across web, mobile, physical spaces, and support channels.
• Ecosystem Blueprinting: Create macro-level user workflows, service blueprints, and structural ecosystem models.
• Journey Mapping: Visualize complex user touchpoints to reduce friction and silos.
• North Star Vision: Define long-term interaction vision and align product teams around future-state experiences.
• Intent-Based Design: Move from static interfaces to dynamic interfaces based on language/context.
• Multi-Modal Workflows: Map experiences across voice, text, gesture, and computer vision.
• Proactive Experience Frameworks: Define how systems anticipate needs through predictive analytics without being invasive.
• Design Systems: Architect scalable component libraries, tokens, and framework patterns for cross-platform consistency.
• Design Operations: Standardize methodologies, research practices, and collaboration tools.
• Dynamic Design Systems: Build tokens and libraries for AI-generated layouts and variable text lengths.
• Agentic Workflows: Map blueprints for multi-agent systems and task handoffs between AI and humans.
• Experience Quality: Establish UX/CX KPIs to audit usability and performance.
• Accessibility Leadership: Ensure frameworks conform to WCAG.

Skills

Cognitive UX & IA

Prompt & Context Engineering UX

Familiarity with AI Tech

Systems Thinking

Ambiguity Management

Ethical Framework Facilitation

Information Architecture

Service Design

Job description

Overview

A UX/CX Design Architect is responsible for bridging the gap between user experience (UX), customer experience (CX), business strategy, and technology. Unlike standard designers who focus on a single screen or product, an architect designs the comprehensive ecosystem, framework, and strategy that governs how a customer interacts with a brand across every physical and digital touchpoint.

Title: Design System Architect

Duration: 6 months

Location: Remote

A UX/CX Design Architect is responsible for bridging the gap between user experience (UX), customer experience (CX), business strategy, and technology. Unlike standard designers who focus on a single screen or product, an architect designs the comprehensive ecosystem, framework, and strategy that governs how a customer interacts with a brand across every physical and digital touchpoint.

Key Responsibilities

AI Strategy & Solution Architecture

• Cross-Channel Strategy: Map complete customer lifecycles across web, mobile, physical spaces, and support channels.
• Ecosystem Blueprinting: Create macro-level user workflows, service blueprints, and structural ecosystem models.
• Journey Mapping: Visualize complex user touchpoints to eliminate system friction and operational silos.
• North Star Vision: Define the long-term interaction vision and align product teams around future-state experiences.

Generative & Multi-Modal Interaction Architecture

• Intent-Based Design: Transition system navigation away from static tabs to dynamic interfaces that adapt instantly based on natural language or context.
• Multi-Modal Workflows: Map seamless experiences across voice, text, gesture, and computer vision touchpoints.
• Proactive Experience Frameworks: Define how systems anticipate customer needs through predictive analytics without feeling invasive.

Governance, Scale, and DesignOps

• Design Systems: Architect scalable component libraries, tokens, and framework patterns for cross-platform consistency.
• Design Operations: Standardize methodologies, research practices, and collaboration tools across decentralized teams.
• Dynamic Design Systems: Build design system tokens and component libraries that can scale across fluid, AI-generated layouts and variable text lengths.
• Agentic Workflows: Map blueprints for multi-agent systems, detailing how independent AI agents hand off tasks to one another and back to human agents.
• Experience Quality: Establish UX/CX quality metrics (KPIs) to audit products for usability and performance.
• Accessibility Leadership: Ensure all architectural frameworks comply with global accessibility standards (WCAG).

Research Synthesis & Business Alignment

• Data-Driven Insights: Translate complex user research data into practical, actionable structural frameworks.
• Behavioral Personas: Build dynamic user personas based on quantitative metrics and qualitative behavioral studies.
• Stakeholder Advocacy: Champion customer centricity to executive leadership using ROI, retention, and satisfaction metrics.
• Tech Feasibility: Partner with Enterprise Architects and Engineers to align design visions with technical realities.

Required Skills And Qualifications

AI & Technical Mastery

• Cognitive UX & IA: Mastery of information architecture suited for unstructured data and large-scale semantic vector spaces.
• Prompt & Context Engineering UX: Deep understanding of how context windows, prompt formatting, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) impact the speed and presentation of UI text.
• Familiarity with AI Tech: Strong working comprehension of LLMs, neural networks, computer vision, and API constraints.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Systems Thinking: Ability to map unpredictable, non-linear user journeys where the system output changes with every prompt.
• Ambiguity Management: Comfort in designing for emerging paradigms where standard, established design patterns do not yet exist.
• Ethical Framework Facilitation: Experience leading workshops centered around bias mitigation and inclusive AI design.
• Information Architecture: Deep mastery of data structuring, content modeling, and complex navigational taxonomy.
• Service Design: Proven capability in modeling back-end operational workflows that power front-end user experiences.

Job Location:

Work At Home